Lifecycle Services

Our existing Data Centre Services portfolio covers those areas required to achieve a reliable, resilient and energy/cost efficient data centre throughout its entire Lifecycle. This includes all elements of infrastructure engineering from refitting or refurbishing a legacy data centre through to equipment refresh or replacement, infrastructure optimisation and recommissioning based on life cycle requirements. Future-tech are experts in project management and risk free installations in live operational environments with a clear focus on minimising any impact on ongoing service delivery. Future-tech engineers focus on maintaining service availability and uptime, reducing costs and increasing efficiencies throughout their comprehensive portfolio of Data Centre Operations, Engineering and Maintenance Services.

Maintenance

Our existing Data Centre Services portfolio covers all areas required to achieve reliable and energy / cost efficient maintenance and operations within a data centre. This includes all elements of infrastructure maintenance and engineering including the management of operating costs, energy management and infrastructure optimisation. Future-tech are experts in risk free maintenance and critical facilities management in live operational environments with a clear focus on minimising any impact on ongoing service delivery. Future-tech engineers focus on maintaining service availability and uptime, reducing costs and increasing efficiencies throughout their comprehensive portfolio of Data Centre Operations, Engineering and Maintenance Services.

New Build

Future-tech's New Build Data Centre Services covers design, build, equipment specification and procurement for any new data centre project. From greenfield data centre development to the conversion of existing buildings, and from micro to mega facilities, Future-tech are recognised as industry leaders in new data centre design and build.

Solutions

Professional Services

Our professional services portfolio covers the entire lifecycle of the data centre. From requirements and design through to audits, optimisation and client representation, our services are designed and carried out by our in-house specialist data centre experts.

Future-tech’s data centre design review increased resilience, reduced cost and improved energy efficiency. Future-tech, data centre specialist, was appointed by a major African Telco to provide a design review for the new Sub-Saharan data centre. Future-tech’s industry leading design team employed a thorough and pragmatic approach ensuring all areas were rigorously assessed and improvements holistically embraced the project’s strategic outcomes.

THE BRIEF

To improve resilience, operational sustainability, energy efficiency and the costs associated with the data centre construction and operation of a 650 cabinet, 4MW data centre. To work through the project brief, design and strategic project objectives with a view to provide alternative data centre solutions and improvements.

THE FUTURE-TECH SOLUTION

Future-tech worked in accordance with the Uptime Institute and EN50600 standards to provide an unbiased appraisal of the data centre design which had been completed by a third party design consultancy.

Future-tech’s amended data centre design removed single points of failure, increased energy efficiency throughout the facility, most markedly in the cooling infrastructure, and reduced data centre construction costs by 8-12%.

The revised data centre design solution provided the client with a different selection of Air Handling Plant, Transformers and Generators, which all contributed to lower construction cost, greater operational resilience and improved energy efficiency.

Future-tech introduced a mixture of traditional and leading edge technical solutions together with an innovative data centre design philosophy.

James WilmanEngineer Sales Director

“It was great to engage with the project while it was still in the design phase. This meant our recommendations could be accommodated easily and without affecting programme. The traditional, non-specialist, building services design consultancy was open to our ideas and specialist data centre knowledge. The two teams worked in a collaborative way and the project was a resounding success.”